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COLEMAN v. YOKUM

No. 71-1207 Summary Calendar.

442 F.2d 351 (1971)

Freeman COLEMAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Hon. Leonard YOKUM, District Attorney, 21st Judicial District, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 19, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Roberts, Baton Rouge, La., for appellant.

Leonard Yokum, Dist. Atty., Hammond, La., for appellee.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN, and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In this hybrid appeal Freeman Coleman asks this Court to reverse a three-judge court's decision upholding the constitutionality of a Louisiana statute. He appeals also from a single judge's decision refusing him an injunction against state prosecution based on the contention that he was denied a speedy trial and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Coleman was arrested in 1959 and charged with murder. A trial date was finally...

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